Traveler’s Notebook setup
Journaling I'll need a long post to talk about how I first (and finally) got started with writing some sort of daily log (will write that someday). This practice migrated through various tools,…
Writing
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Finding the Human Signal: iA Writer’s Authorship Guides
The most valuable writing tool I’ve discovered recently isn’t another AI assistant—it’s iA Writer’s “human versus AI” authorship guides. The feature is quite simple: As you write, iA Writer visibly m…
A note about my blogs
Wesley Yang's story
(clearing out old posts, this one is from three years ago ...) I'm enjoying Wesley Yang's Substack these days -- it's well-written, comprehensive, and inspiring. How did this come about?…
Of messages and Medium
I've gone back-and-forth with different "posting workflows" over the years, and had receded into "Wordpress-only" over the last year. Various recent alternatives: 1. Complet…
A pen-written short post
Roam and Raycast
“Quick capture” is important, especially if you have too much of a “monkey mind”. I use Roam as a combination of bullet-journal, and thinking playground, but there can be friction in using it when no…
Pen & Paper
Getting back to more use of pen and paper this year — or rather, continuing my use in a different way, learning from my own use over the last few years. This is one of them, a place for “daily dumps…
Winds of Change
I usually listen to audiobooks when I'm driving alone -- all the time -- but today, I happened to be listening to a shuffled playlist, and "Winds of Change" came on. If you're too y…
Funnel
I’m writing this within the text capture portion of an app called Funnel. I’ve always valued a sort of “universal entry point” for things. It’s what I used Drafts for, initially. This is simpler, of…
Old Drafts
I just found a bundle of about 20 draft posts I'd written. Over time there are just so many "stashes" like this. I'm not even sure what to do with them. I could just copy-paste th…
Thoughts on Micro.blog
I annually review the places I write at -- whether long pieces, or short pieces, or a few words, or just images. One of these was a foray with Micro.blog, and I was wondering whether it might replace…